Re: ANNOUNCE: TIP#262 Published
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Re: ANNOUNCE: TIP#262 Published

From: Christopher Nelson <cnelson@nycap.rr.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 16:37:45 CEST

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
> > While I think that the feature is a great idea, I don't understand why
> > we'd have a different name for the option if it does the same thing.
> > There's no existing -image option to frame. It seems best to use the
> > same option name for the same feature on multiple widgets.
>
> The original submission said that the new option should be called
> -image, but I changed it because the interpretation of the option here
> is quite at variance to the interpretation of -image in the other
> widgets that use it (e.g. labels, buttons, etc.) ...

OK. I accept that the feature is different and we may want to add this
feature to other widgets later. Then I suggest that the comparison to
button's -image option be removed or rewritten as it draws an
inaccurate analogy.
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:55:05 2006